Featured Article — Office Outlook timeout causes receive to fail for Hotmail
Outlook gives users the capability to access HTTP-based Hotmail accounts without opening a Web browser. Most of the time, Outlook has no problems downloading messages from Hotmail, but if a message has a large attachment that prevents Outlook from downloading the message within one minute (the hard-coded timeout value), the user will receive an error message that a connection to the server could not be established.
You can't change the timeout value for the Hotmail connection, but you can work around this potential problem. One solution is to retrieve the message via POP3 using Outlook Express, then either work with the message directly in Outlook Express or export the message to Outlook. To export the message, create a new folder in Outlook Express and copy the message to it. Choose File, Export, Messages. Select the folder to export and click OK. When you open Outlook, the folder should appear in your mailbox.
Another solution is to simply download the message using a Web browser and bypass Outlook altogether. If you don't want the message, you can connect to your Hotmail account from Internet Explorer, delete the message, and then retrieve the remaining ones using Outlook. |
